Northshore Council PTSA Advocacy Updates 2023-2024
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• Advocacy Meetups: Navigating Budget Cuts in Education: Join us at one or all of these meetups on May 9, May 16, and May 21, 2024.
• It's Time to Identify Your PTA's Legislative Assembly Voting Delegates - Legislative Assembly will be held remotely through the Whova App on October 21 and October 22, 2023. Registration will open soon!
• Advocacy Update: Legislative Assembly Recap - Read about the 45th WSPTA Legislative Assembly. 

Northshore Council PTSA Advocacy Updates 2022-2023
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• PTA Advocacy 101 - Advocacy for the PTA is supporting and speaking up for children, families, and schools! 
• WSPTA's 44th Legislative Assembly 2022 - October 15-16, 2022. Registration is now open for in person and remote attendance. Registration closes on October 6th.
• PTA Advocacy  - Northshore Council PTSA encourages civil discussion about important and controversial issues. Having an open discussion and voting on a position, encourages civil discourse and helps ensure a PTA is representing its membership.
• WSPTA Adopts Legislative Priorities for 2022-2024. Read more about the 2022 Legislative Assembly. 
• November Advocacy Update: Council's VP of Advocacy, Jennifer Drury provides update. 
• January 2023 PTA Advocacy News: Upcoming Focus on Advocacy Day/Week
• Survey: Meetings with Legislators and Focus Day 2023
• Northshore Focus on Advocacy Day 2023 Recap
• Spotlight on Advocacy: Elementary Art 4 Northshore Learn about an advocacy effort to bring elementary art to Northshore.  
• Advocacy Highlight: What it Takes to Become a School Board Director You will find resources and answers to questions on what it takes to be a school board director. 

Northshore Council PTSA Advocacy Updates 2021-2022
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• 6 Advocacy Action Items - Let's get ready for 2021-2022!
• School Board Candidate Forum - Save the Date (10/5) & Submit Your Questions​​
• WSPTA Legislative Assembly - October 23-24, 2021 - Registration is now open for this year's WSPTA Legislative Assembly which will be held online!
• Candidate Forum Update: Attend the 10/5 In-Person School Board Candidate Forum PLUS Voter Registration Information. Watch the recorded forum here.
• Upcoming Advocacy Roundtable on 10/9 at 11AM (hosted by WSPTA Regions 1 & 6 as part of their Leadership Training event).
• Check out our Recap of the 2021 WSPTA Legislative Assembly!
• Let us know how we can support advocacy efforts at your school! Please complete Council's short Advocacy Efforts Survey to help us serve you better.
• Advocacy Focus Week is January 17-21, 2022 - Learn what it's all about and how you can get involved!
• Upcoming February 8th Special Election - Find voter information and learn more about NSD's Bond & Levies that will be on the ballot.
• Focus Week Recap - Learn more about what took place during this year's Focus on Advocacy Week!
• Check out our tips & resources for Holding a Voter Registration Drive.
• Submission Process NOW OPEN for the 2022 Legislative Assembly.
• Read our WSPTA 109th Annual Convention Recap!
• 2021-2022 Advocacy Recap - Check out some highlights from the Advocacy work done in 2021-2022 and start planning for next year!

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Northshore Council PTSA Advocacy Updates 2020-2021
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• ​Advocacy 101 - Learn how to get Advocacy started at your PTA today!
• Candidate Spotlight Forum - Submit questions for the candidates to answer in an upcoming virtual forum. (Deadline to submit: 9/18/2020)
• WSPTA Legislative Assembly - October 24-25, 2020 - Registration is now open for this year's WSPTA Legislative Assembly which will be held online!
• E-Survey Resource - Find out what is important to your members before your delegates vote at the 2020 Legislative Assembly.
• Council's 2020 Candidate Forum Q&A - a virtual forum where education-related questions were gathered from Northshore community members and then compiled along with candidate responses.
• Northshore Council 2020 Legislative Assembly Wrap-Up
• Sign up for Action Alerts - Sign up for advocacy information and action alerts through the WSPTA Action Network Group. These action alerts are quick, easy ways to communicate with legislators on topics they are actively working on.
• Write Your PTA Story - Build your pitch to legislators based on feedback from your community and WSPTA's Legislative Platform.
• Focus Week January 18-22, 2021 - Get involved in this year's virtual Advocacy Focus Week by taking action from home!
• Focus on Advocacy Week - Answering the Who, What, When, Where, and Why for this important part of PTA's work.
• February Advocacy Updates - Thank you to everyone who participated in Advocacy Week; now find out what's happened since then.
• Council Sends Letter to School Board - Using a Top 5 Legislative Priority to advocate for the mental health needs of children and youth!
• March 1st Update - PTA Advocacy is still going strong; Check out recent updates and find out how you can continue your advocacy work!
• LegCon 2021 Recap - Read some of the highlights from National PTA's Legislative Conference which took place virtually this year.

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Northshore Council PTSA Advocacy Updates 2019-2020
It's About How PTA Shows Up, Stands Up and Speaks Up!
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• Advocacy Week 2020 - 2/24-28 - You don't have to go to Olympia to be an advocate-- you can do it from where you are. Subscribe to the WSPTA Action Network to stay informed and take action!
• Northshore at Focus Day 2020
• Save the date for Focus Day: January 20, 2020! Click here to reserve your ride with Northshore Council!
• Engage: PTA Advocacy! - Legislative Assembly is over but advocacy is ongoing! Here is a list of three things you can be doing!
• Northshore Council Legislative Assembly 2019 Wrap-up
• School Pick-up/Drop-off Survey - voice your experiences and concerns about school drop-off and pick-up. (Survey end date: 10/18/2019)
• WSPTA Legislative Assembly - October 26-27, 2019 - Registration is now open for this year's WSPTA Legislative Assembly at Bellevue College in Bellevue, WA!
• Adopted: Furniture Tip-Over Prevention Resolution - The membership of Northshore Council PTSA adopted a Furniture Tip-Over Resolution at its membership meeting on September 16, 2019.
• General Meeting - September 16, 2019 - where members will be asked to consider a proposed resolution on Furniture Tip-Over Prevention.
• 2019 Legislative Session Wrap-up

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Northshore Council PTSA Advocacy Updates 2018-2019

• WSPTA Convention - April 26-28, 2019 at the Sea-Tac Hilton Convention Center - At Convention, delegates from across the state elected the 2019-21 state PTA leaders and voted on bylaws changes.  
• Advocacy Week - February 11-15, 2019 - WSPTA will be asking members to send pre-written emails each day during Advocacy Week – February 11 – 15, 2019. Subscribe to the WSPTA Action Network to stay informed.
• Focus Day - February 11, 2019 - UPDATE: Event Cancelled due to inclement weather
• Bus with Us to Focus Day! - Cancelled due to inclement weather
• WSPTA Action Network
• WSPTA's New Top Five Platform!

• WSPTA Legislative Assembly - October 20-21, 2018 - PTA members from Northshore submitted four issues and two resolutions that were approved by delegates at 2018 Legislative Assembly! See the full platform below or visit the WSPTA Advocacy page to learn more.
• Watch the 2018 Candidate's Forum - On October 1, 2018, Northshore Council PTSA sponsored a Candidates Forum for candidates vying for state legislative positions in the 1st, 45th, and 46th districts. It was an opportunity for community members to connect with the candidates and ask questions to inform their votes.
• 2018 Candidates Forum - 10/1

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